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Saccharum hirsutum

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Name

Identification
Lasiurus scindicus Henrard [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by T.A. Cope, 1983 Saccharum hirsutum Forssk. [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Panicum lanigenosus Not on sheet [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Lasiurus hirsutus (Vahl) Boiss [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by T.A. Cope, 1983
Related name
  • Lasiurus hirsutus
  • Rottboellia hirsuta
  • Triticum aegilopoides
  • Lasiurus scindicus
  • Panicum lanigenosus
  • Elionurus hirsutus
  • Panicum lanatum
  • Saccharum hirsutum
  • Rottboellia lanata

Flora

Entry for LASIURUS scindicus Henrard [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
LASIURUS scindicus Henrard [family POACEAE], (1941). Fig. 162.
Saccharum hirsutum Forssk. [family POACEAE], (1775) non Rottboellia hirsuta Vahl, nom. illeg., based on Triticum aegilopoides Forssk., non Lasiurus hirsutus (Vahl) Boiss., nec Elionurus hirsutus (Vahl) Munro ex Benth.
Information
Stems often woody below, up to 90 cm high, simple or suffruticose, erect from a thick woody rhizome covered with firm, imbricate, often silky cataphylls. Racemes up to 10 cm long, silky-villous from the internodes, pedicels and glumes. Sessile spikelet 6–13 mm long; lower glume lanceolate, often caudate, 2-toothed at the tip with divergent teeth, often spreading horizontally at maturity or when dry. Pedicelled spikelet usually 5–7 mm long.
Range
N1–3 from Mali eastwards through Arabia and South-west Asia to North-east India.
Altitude range
0–1000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 2079; Bally 11217; Beckett 576.
Notes
Darif, dungara, sefar (Som.).

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